Draft-equalizer.



L. LEAVER.

DRAFT EQUALIZER.

APPLICATLON FILED NOV. 26. 1915.

1 1,226,541. Patented May 15, 1917.

r Beit, known that I, LEWIS Iimvnnya citi mavun, or: meow, IOWA.

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Tdali whom it wig [mm i zen of the United States,- residing atxArmstrong; in, the county of Emmet and State of Iowa, "have invented certain. new; and useful-Improvements n Draft-Equalizers;

and I'do'hereby declare the -following to -be a jfull, clear; andexact'descriptlon ofthe -invention, such as will enable others skilled. 10

in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

' improvements indraft equalizers and. the

p principal object of the invention-is to pro u, I hitch three draft animals abreast and equalvidea' device which-will enable the user to ize' theload on" each.

, Another object of the invention is to provide a device which is adapted to be used iii-connectionwith an ordinary wagon hav: ling the usual draft pole or tongue w1thout the necessity of Substituting shafts-or the like, therefor 6 With these and other objects in view, the

invention consists, in the novel combination and arrangement of. parts which will be i fully [set qthereto. L

. '2 is a' fragmentary transverse sectiona view on lin'e 2-2 of Fig. '.-1.@

arm-to which the "w and- J Fig; 4' is arear view partly HISGCHODI pole 'showingthi's improved evener attached 3 is a detailrgerspective'view of the of the rear, end of the tongue showing the roller carrying platein'ounted thereon. p40, R f

e erring to; the drawin the numeral 1 designates 'the'tongue out e pole provided 5 and rotatably mount the pu ey vfi ieel 11' therein; Asuitable pin or r we) extend through the alining o ,Wn'i'n at its rear end: with theusual -bra.cesc2, whichare connected by a biz-r 3. r to the 'u-pper side of the bar is aftrip'i Sec ured whichis. provided with a plurality o 8 need openipgsb arranged arcuate'ly. A'sul table strip 6 similarto the strip. 4 is held in- ;spaced'parallel relation to the strip the bar or strip 4 isprovidedwith the apertu 9 which'ajrearranged arcuately and so posl ioned with relation to the strip has to be in alinement with the ogeiiirigs 5 'ot is a up orth in the following'specifica tion and accompanying drawingain which 1 1 is a plan view of a portion ofa iflle tree is connected a suitable bolt 30 which exten' l I said pole ,ynd through the attaching ment 31 on bar' 24,-

.on the swingle trees '18 wig 4 y' the spaces 7 and bolts 8. This bar like 5o 10 and is pivoted at 13 to the mediate its rear end at the pomt where it oins the bar 3. '4

a. link .15., the rearend of which isbifurcated andsthe arms of said bifurcated portion'are pivoted to the pole, while the forward end I r of the link ispivoted at 16 to the double This invention relates to'newand useful tree 17; "The opposite ends of this double ,tree carry the usualswingle tree 18 to said chain is looped through a siinilar connection 22 pivoted at- 23' to the, 006 rating equalizer be! Which will be'rnore fu 1y here'- inafter described. 7

The equalizerv bar above referred to is, designatedbythe numeral 24' and. carries at its outer end a suitable connection 25 for th wingle tree-26 'carlging at its ends the i ,traoeconneotion 27 T e Inner end of the bar 2 is provided with a 'pluralityof openin'gs 8 so that'the pivot point 23 of. the U-shaped clip or attaching element 22' may .be adpisted. A suitable connectinfiele'ment 29 is riveted orv otherwise secured to'the upper side of the bar 24 and is pivoted to specimen; i nae-ma t nt d Ma .1'5-, 1 '7 Le ncae fleamvmberac,ie afeernincieasaa- 'I .ivota11y;mounted at 14 to the p oleat pointin' advance of, the pivots 13 is the so. i

the upper'side'of'the pole at a point intermediate the piV0tS ,..,13;md 1 'byv e the .underisideof the pole which is bent and attac It will 'be'epparen t. frointhe rthat in use the. pull of the draft p eexertphll the c "ain 21- and thusten bar 24 'rearwardly. Thetdraanimal atpull of the draft animals on=thewwin tached to'the swingle tree'Q6j will ofi'set trees 18, thereby evenly distributing e load over all of the animals.

.While in the foregoing there has bee shown and described the P eferred emb0diment of this invention; it is .to be understood that such changes uTpvardly and angularly ea at '82 lied at 33- tothe underside of 1:11?"

. ioomay be made'in l the combination and-arrangement of parts as will fall within the spirit and scope-0f the appended. claim. e

a In a draft equalizer; the'combinatibn with an, drdinery vehicle pole and braces at tached'to' and divei'ging from the pear and of the pole, of a. pair-of vertically spaced strips attached; to said braces, a pulley rotatab'ly mounted between saiql strips, .said strips provided with a .plnntl-ity gf open-Y ingsf to permit the .acljnstinghpf'the posi- 'tinn-of s'aid pulley with respect teseid pole;-

a brace pi vota'll'y connected to said ole and :the uppermost o sajd strips direct y above s aid pulley, a link pivgtallycdnhected to said pole-fomyprdly of said sti'ips'an diext-f tending outwiaidly and' forwa 'dly-from the v positely to the link, an equalizing bar connected to-said bar, a brace connectedto-the I 25 under surface of equalizing bar endflsaid "pole, ,and'& flexible membelyconnected to said doubletree, extendin about said ulleyj andadjustably connecte to saideqnaizing bar inte 'n edmtely. of its ends;

in Pre sence oftwo witnesses. I. I v LEWIS LEAV-En,

WitneeSes.:-

I SAMfBOUSER, W mole, a doubletree connected to the outer ree end of said-link, a bar piyotally con-l nected to ,said pole rearwnrdly if said link [and extending outwardly from the poleop- 

